most zealous and officer-like manner; and, after the ship struck, his coolness, self-collection, and exertions, were highly conspicuous; and that every thing was done by him and his officers, within the power of man to execute, previous to the loss of the ship, and afterwards to preserve the lives of the right honourable lord Amherst, his majesty's embassador, and his suite, as well as those of the ship's company, and to save her stores on that occasion; and therefore adjudge the said captain Murray Maxwell, his officers and men, to be most fully acquitted." The court was very crowded, and there were present lords Amherst and Colchester. The former, being examined by the court, stated, "that he had selected captain Maxwell, on the occasion of the embassy, from motives of personal friendship, as well as from the high opinion he entertained of his professional character, which opinion had been much increased by the events of this voyage." NO. II. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST of the Kings of Lewchew, from the End of the Twelfth Century, to the Beginning of last. |